Oak Park’s Public Health Department has been a state-certified local health department for 75 years, but facets of the robust department residents know now existed long before then, too.
Oak Parkers are reporting on social media and elsewhere that the population of rats in the village appears to have increased. From photos of “rat holes” in alleys to photos of dead bodies by dumpsters, the complaints have been stacking up.
As asylum seekers work to adjust to life in the United States, housing and healthcare are top-of-mind. Meanwhile, volunteers – from the city to the suburbs – are working to make them feel at home.